Photo: eileenmak · CC BY 2.0A larger share of children under 15 than 86% of Canadian towns: 20%
With a median age of 38.4, Morden is younger than nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. The town had about 11,578 residents in July 2025, by Statistics Canada’s estimate, and 3,995 households at the 2021 Census. Across Morden, 26% of residents said they have no religion. Recent arrivals are 62% of immigrants (2011 to 2021), beside 27% across Canada’s towns.
What stands out about the people of Morden
Growing faster than most
Morden went from 8,668 people in 2016 to 9,929 in 2021, +15%: faster growth than in 92% of Canadian towns. Population change ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
A +15% change since 2016: faster than 92% of Canadian towns
All figures are the 2021 Census’s unless another date is shown. Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Across Canada’s towns, the typical town changed +4%; across Manitoba’s towns, +4%. Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025 is 17% higher again.
Morden ranks above 56% of Canadian towns on residents aged 65 and over: 20%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
More residents are 35–39 than any other five-year age: 7.7% of residents. The wider picture: 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns. Little separates the share of residents aged 15 to 24 here, 11%, from the figure across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Morden, 38.4. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women.
A larger share of one-person households than 58% of Canadian towns: 29%
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Manitoba’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Across Canada’s towns, couple families are 53% of households and one-parent families 8.2%; here, 58% and 6.8%. As a yardstick, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns. Households average 2.4 people.
A lower share of common-law partners than 86% of Canadian towns, at 5.9%
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
22% of adults are single and have never married; the typical town has 27%. The census found that 58% of residents 15 and over are married in Morden. The comparison figure for common-law partners is 11% across Canada’s towns.
More households in single-detached houses than 55% of Canadian towns: 67%
Houses and apartments, owners and renters, older and newer homes. Prices, rents and shelter costs are on Cost of living.
Type of home
Owners and renters · share of households
When homes were built · share of homes
Newer homes outnumber old: 34% date from 2001 or later, 14% from before 1961. 1.1% of households live in a building of five or more storeys, a higher share than in 61% of Canadian towns. Measured more widely, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. Where 25% of households rent their home across Canada’s towns, Morden has 26%.
Household income at the median: $71,500 a year
The income year is 2020: a year of pandemic benefits such as CERB, which the figures count. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
Morden’s median household took in $71,500 before tax, 17% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The middle household across Manitoba’s towns has $83,000 before tax. Emergency and recovery benefits reached 19% of those with an income, beside a typical 28%.
More residents who moved in within the year than 83% of Canadian towns: 16%
Immigrants by continent of birth and when they arrived, citizenship, and who moved in recently.
Immigrants, by continent of birth · share of all residents; the bar runs to 25%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Most immigrants were born in Asia (41%) or in Europe (35%). Morden has more residents without Canadian citizenship than 76% of Canadian towns, at 12%. The usual figure: just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. Across Canada’s towns, the share of immigrants is 17%; Morden has 19%.
Morden ranks above 69% of Canadian towns on Indigenous residents: 4.9%
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Where 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns, Morden has 9.3%. To put it in context, 2.8% of residents have an Indigenous identity across Canada’s towns.
English is the mother tongue of 70%, and 5.8% speak French as well
English, French and the other languages people grew up with or speak at home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
At home, 13% mostly speak another language; 1.4% speak neither English nor French. Fewer bilingual residents than in 66% of Canadian towns: 5.8%. Residents whose mother tongue is French are about as common here as across Canada’s towns: 0.9%.
Fewer degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 56% of Canadian towns: 24%
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
With no certificate, diploma or degree: 13%, beside a typical 9.5%. As a reference point, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
60% of residents 15 and over were in work
The census counted work in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so read these rates as a pandemic snapshot. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
60% of residents 15 and over have a job, in line with the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
Among 41 towns of 11,355 to 11,810 people, the 16th youngest
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
At one end is Milton-Parc (30.4), at the other Sechelt (57.6). In age, Morden keeps company with West Springs (37.4), Provinceton (38.2), Estevan (38.8) and Long Branch (39.8).
No nearby town is as old as Morden
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What these tables don’t give. For origins the charts stop at visible minority and Indigenous identity, and the Census Profile has nothing on unpaid care, cars or the internet, or on change by age since 2016.
- The census’s own words. “Visible minority” is the census’s term from the Employment Equity Act: people, other than Indigenous peoples, who are non-white in colour or race. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are as residents answered. The page compares them with other towns and never labels a town by them.
- Against Manitoba’s towns and Canada’s towns. A figure here is set beside two middles, the median across Manitoba’s places of 2,500 people or more and the median across all Canadian towns that size; reserves and entire cities are excluded from both.
Questions about Morden’s residents
Is Morden good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 20%. 58% of households are couple families and 6.8% one-parent families. Schools near Morden are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Morden?
$71,500 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Morden (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Morden?
Statistics Canada estimates 11,578 residents for July 2025; the 2021 Census counted 9,929 in Morden, 15% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Morden?
38.4 is the median age, younger than 74% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 20%. 65 and over: 20%.
Is Morden bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 5.8% are. Another 0% speak only French and 93% only English, and French is the first language of 0.9%.
How diverse is Morden?
Immigrants make up 19% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 9.3% are members of a visible minority, and 4.9% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Morden?
Christian: 72%. No religion: 26%. Another religion: 1.8%.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population · Statistics Canada, population estimates for 1 July 2025 (table 17-10-0155). Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).